Education Commons^™

Parental Mediation On Children's Television Viewing In Malaysia, Diyana Kamarudin

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

The purpose of his study is to examine how Malaysian parents mediate their children's television viewing habits. This study looks at four types of mediation which are instructive, restrictive, social co-viewing and unstructured mediation. Data collection includes participants completing a daily diary over a one week period on how they mediate their children's television viewing and a one-on-one semi-structured interviews with each of the participant through web cam. In descending order the themes that were found to be the most important are religion, television is educational, parents advise children through television and television is used for families to get together.

Climate Change Education: The Perspective From Middle School Teachers, Peggy M. Mcneal

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

Climate change education is complicated by the complexity of Earth systems an\d misconceptions. This study reflects the motivations and practices of teachers who are teaching climate change prior to the implementation of Next Generation Science Standards. Data were collected during an online focus group with teachers from across the country,. The focus group revealed dispositions and brought teachers into the conversation. The themes that emerged provide an enhanced understanding of teacher attitudes, behavior, opinions and perceptions.

Maximizing Your Fulbright Experience, Yolanda C. Martin

Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Short Course To Focus On Use Of Mathematical Sciences In Obesity Research, Jim Bakken

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

04-24-2015 Swosu Pharmacy Fraternities Assist With Senior Citizen Center 25th Anniversary Celebration, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2015

The men and women of Kappa Epsilon and Kappa Psi pharmacy fraternities at Southwestern Oklahoma State University recently volunteered their services to help with the 25th anniversary celebration of the Pioneer Center, a senior citizen facility in Weatherford.

April 24, 2015 Minutes, Swosu Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

SWOSU Faculty Senate April 24, 2015 Approved Minutes

Video Cassettes, University Breckinridge School

University Archives Finding Aids

No abstract provided.

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words; Exploring Postmodern Picturebooks And Children's Understanding Of Characterization, Emily Anne Davis

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

This research considered how visuals in postmodern picturebooks influenced first graders' insights and understandings about characters and characterization. Unlike traditional picturebooks, postmodern picturebooks have the potential to engage students with visual images as well as the text. However, because of the complex visual representations, codes, and literary devices within postmodern picturebooks, teachers must take the time to explicitly teach students to navigate these picturebooks to promote not only visual literacy but, most importantly, higher-order thinking skills (HOT). This action research was conducted in a first grade class where fourteen students participated in focus groups and follow-up activities including open-ended questions, …

Literacy-Based Play And Emergent Comprehension Of Kindergarten Students, Lina Ewell

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

Play is a very important element in a child's literacy development. Play can provide meaningful experiences that promote literacy skills and strategies while also allowing opportunities for oral language development. In addition, students are given the opportunity for further exploration and discovery of both themselves and their surroundings. Learning is a social process and play, in turn, becomes a tool. My study contributes to previous research as I aim to gain a deeper understanding of how play affects literacy development. More specifically, I have examined how literacy-based play influences emergent comprehension skills of kindergarten students. The period of emergent comprehension …

Lighting The Fire Of Literacies: Exploring The Influence Of Multimodal Writing On Student Engagement, Allison Cline

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

This research looks at how students engage in multimodality in relation to the writing process, building off of the work from the New London Group, who coined the term "multiliteracies" in 1996. With the continued advances in technology, the idea and scope of multiliteracies and multimodality expands as well. This is a field that requires continued exploration, as this research attempts to do. Students were given an initial survey on their interest in personal and academic writing. The survey included a likert scale and open ended responses. Students then completed two assignments concerning sides in the American Revolution. Project elements …

I Love A Piano

Taylor Theatre Playbills

Taylor University Theatre presents its spring musical, "I Love A Piano", a celebration of the iconic compositions and lyrics of Irving Berlin.

2015-April-24-Jcchc Receives $50k To Establish Medical-Legal Partnership, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

Preparing For Change: An Examination Of An Urban School's Extra-Curricular Activities And Professional Learning Communities In Creating A Culture Ready For Change, Linda Brown-Bartlett

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this action research study is to examine the use of extra-curricular activities and professional learning communities to create a school culture ready for academic change. This unique approach to implementing change, in a historically failing urban middle school, utilizes a two pronged approach focusing on personalizing strategies specific to the school based on student and staff expressed needs. The study takes place at Sonia Middle School located in the United States' fifth most dangerous and impoverished city, Bartlett, New Jersey. Numerous academic reform models have failed to improve teaching and learning. The researcher hypothesizes these programs failed …

April 24, 2015 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Rural Nebraska Elementary Students' Aspirations To Attend Institutions Of Higher Education, Brock T. Rezny

Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Numerous studies exist on college and career readiness in the middle and high school grades, but these studies often exclude the elementary grades. Even less research has been done regarding this topic in rural education. With more research indicating a need for college readiness beginning in elementary school, this study adds to the literature by seeing if rural elementary students in Nebraska have aspirations for continued education and who influences those aspirations. The sample population of this quantitative study were fourth graders in five rural schools in an athletic conference in Nebraska. The survey was created with collaboration from two …

Spring 2015 Graduation Weekend Events: A Full Weekend Of Celebrations And Special Speakers

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

Spring 2015 Graduation Weekend details.

Filmmaker Martin Doblmeier To Speak At Commencement: Founder And President Of Journey Films To Speak At Cas Commencement

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

Announcement that "Martin Doblmeier, founder and president of Journey Films, will speak at the Andrews University College of Arts & Sciences Commencement on Sunday, May 3, 2015, at 11 a.m. in Pioneer Memorial Church on the campus of Andrews University."

Baseball Sweeps Doubleheader From Ulm, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Baseball Sweeps Doubleheader from ULM

2015-April-24-John P. Kee And New Life To Headline Gospel Extravaganza Weekend, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

Living On Highways, Alexa Dicken

Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal

“Living on Highways” is a selection comprised of ten poems from my honors thesis. The poems focus on nature and views of human reality in the context of nature, two subjects that require attention to sustainability. I find my strongest inspiration in experiences of interaction with nature, simply being outside and observing the relationship between people and nature. Written in the environmental literary tradition of poets such as Billy Collins and Emily Dickinson, “Living on Highways” situates its poems within the context of nature but comes with a focused regard on humanity’s responsibility toward the appreciation of the environment and …

2015-April-24-Ornl Official Dr. Benjamin Thomas To Speak On Friday Johnson City, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

Coming To Understand Diversity And Education: Life Experiences And Educational Opportunities, Steven Paul Chamberlain

Human Development and School Services Faculty Publications

Coming to understand how cultural differences influence interactions between educators and students and their parents is a complex and perhaps life-long discovery. Culture helps to define groups’ belief systems and expectations for appropriate behavior, often at a hidden level. Pre-service teachers need multiple opportunities to interact with diverse populations in supervised and reflective environments. This article recounts key experiences in one White American’s life that have led to his current understanding of diversity and the role of diversity in education. These experiences occurred throughout my life; some were by chance and others were more prescribed. The article concludes with reflections …

The Insights Of Hannah Arendt And Virtue Ethics On Education, Benjamin Bellinger

Honors Theses

This paper attempts to find the purpose of education and resolve if critical thinking can be taught in education. To answer this question the paper uses Hannah Arendt’s seminal piece The Human Condition, her political essays Between Past and Future, and her journalistic controversy Eichmann in Jerusalem to formulate Arendt’s view on education. Julia Annas’ book Intelligent Virtue gives this work a framework for how one learns a virtue. Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue provides the theory for how one grounds the virtues by continuing a version of Aristolean virtue ethics. While this work does not directly use Nicomachean …

Performance Study Of A Mems Low-Noise Sound Pressure Gradient Microphone Under An Ac Bias, Jonathan Michelson

Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal

An AC bias was introduced into microelectromechanical system (MEMS) low-noise sound pressure gradient microphone by Miles, Cui, Su and Hormentcovschi (2014), and its implications for the device's noise performance and directivity readings are discussed. The schematic involved demodulation of the microphone output with external circuitry, and subsequent computer software analysis of the microphone and circuitry outputs. Although insights into noise improvement were frustrated due to subpar noisy components used in the demodulation circuitry, the simultaneous measuring of the microphone's varying directivity patterns was shown to be achievable with this AC bias scheme.

Orgin Of Subgap Features In Transparent Amorphous Oxide Semiconductors, Zachary Lebens-Higgins, Anne Dailey, Louis Piper

Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal

Amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide (a-IGZO) is a transparent amorphous oxide semiconductor (TAOS) that has shown promise as transparent thin film transistors (TTFTs) in various display applications. Within a-IGZO films, states can form in the band gap that hinder TTFT performance. In order to elucidate the origin of these states, we examined the formation of the subgap states for a-IGZO thin films with various compositions. We observed a positive correlation between the subgap formation and the percentage of oxygen ruling out oxygen deficiencies as a factor in the formation of subgap states. Furthermore, metallic indium crystallites were observed to form …

The Economic Payoff Of Party Membership In China, Kevin Acker

Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal

Because political party membership could potentially confer large economic benefits, economists have increasingly turned their attention to the role of political and social status in one’s life. The Chinese Communist party is the biggest political party in the world, and members are often motivated to join for economic reasons. Previous studies examine the relationship between Communist party membership and earnings and find positive correlation but this correlation may be partly or totally spurious, thereby generating upwards-biased estimates of the importance of political party membership – political party membership is likely to be correlated with a variety of other variables, which …

Residue, Donovan Borger

Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal

Residue is a flash fiction piece, exploring loss, specifically the loss of the protagonist’s sons and his teeth. To write this piece, I read a large number of anthologized flash fiction pieces written by contemporary authors including David Foster Wallace, Lydia Davis, Tobias Wolff, and George Saunders with the intent of understanding and reproducing their takes on the flash fiction form while adding my own nuances. For purposes of characterization and setting, I also researched logging done on the land of what is now Algonquin Park in Ontario. My research and writing show that flash fiction functions most effectively when …

Morality Of A Carbon Tax: Transition To A Sustainable Economy, Timothy Lamendola

Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal

A carbon tax is needed to address the negative externalities caused by carbon emissions. Increased carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have a direct and negative impact on net social benefit to current and future generations. Our current human population has a moral obligation to future generations and, therefore, is responsible for excess burning of fossil fuels. This essential carbon tax is needed to help wean humans off their fossil fuel reliance. One should not be concerned with the economic losses this could cause because an economy based off unlimited growth is unsustainable and must be altered. A new, sustainable …

Summer Research Pays Long-Term Dividends, University Communications, Illinois Wesleyan University

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Global Health Students Raise Funds To Fight Malaria, University Communications, Illinois Wesleyan University

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.